Lieutenant Commander Varis Elia
Name Varis Elia
Position Chief Operations Officer
Rank Lieutenant Commander
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Bajoran | |
| Age | 30 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 163cm | |
| Weight | 54kg | |
| Hair Color | Auburn | |
| Eye Color | Green | |
| Physical Description | Standing at 163 cm and weighing 54 kg, she possesses a slender but athletic build, typical of a Starfleet officer who keeps up with standard physical fitness protocols. She has vibrant auburn hair that falls in soft waves just past her shoulders, framing a fair complexion and bright, expressive green eyes. She bears the classic horizontal nasal ridges of her Bajoran heritage. On her left ear, she wears a delicate, tiered Bajoran earring featuring interconnected chains and a teardrop-shaped pendant. |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Sito Krell | |
| Mother | Varis Lira | |
| Brother(s) | Varis Tyan (Half Brother and is half Human) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | If you meet Elia off-duty, your first impression is probably going to be just how bubbly and upbeat she is. She's naturally warm, approachable, and energetic, which sometimes leads new crewmates to not take her entirely seriously at first. But anyone who works for LCDR Varis in Operations quickly figures out that she expects you to bring your A-game. She doesn't put up with any nonsense on the clock and holds her team to a very high standard, but she balances that out by being incredibly fair and genuinely supportive of her people. Outside of work, Elia's dating history is basically a comedy of errors. She’s had a long string of laughably bad relationships since her teenage years. Having been single for a year now, she’s feeling this sudden, eager rush to get back out there and find a new partner right away—even if she doesn't really need to force it. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Professionally, Elia is an absolute powerhouse. Her biggest strength is her logistical mind; she thrives in high-pressure multitasking and can flawlessly orchestrate ten different departments during a ship-wide crisis. However, she has a major professional weakness: the "puzzle trap." If she encounters a singular, truly baffling technical anomaly, she gets severe tunnel vision. She will obsess over it, losing track of time, ignoring her comm badge, and forgetting to eat until she solves it. Off-duty, her personal life is an absolute disaster zone. Her biggest flaw is that she pours 110% of her competence into her career and leaves nothing for herself. Because the quiet of her empty quarters reminds her that she doesn't have the family she desperately wants, she tends to hide in her work, pulling extra shifts just to avoid going home. When she does try to date, she treats it like an engineering problem, constantly drawn to "fixer-upper" partners she subconsciously thinks she can repair. Currently single for over a year, she is feeling a frantic, misguided urgency to find someone new. To compensate for her lack of a domestic life in the meantime, she has taken up traditional Bajoran cooking—a hobby she is dangerously, comically terrible at, but stubbornly refuses to quit. |
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| Ambitions | When it comes to her future, Elia is genuinely torn between two very different paths. She excels at her job and is definitely tempted by the command track, occasionally wondering if she wants to push for the center seat as a captain one day. But on the other hand, because her father completely disappeared from her life after her parents divorced when she was eight, she's always had a profound desire to build the solid, stable family she never had. She frequently daydreams about eventually wrapping up her Starfleet career, heading back home to Bajor, and reconnecting with her culture's customs and spirituality to raise a family. She just isn't quite sure yet which dream is going to win out. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | When she actually forces herself to take some downtime, Elia’s hobbies are a mix of high energy and hilarious disasters. Her primary obsession right now is mastering traditional Bajoran cooking. She routinely attempts to make complex family dishes from scratch—like hasparat or moba fruit tarts—which usually results in a smoke-filled kitchen and polite, terrified chewing from whichever friends she has cornered into taste-testing. To burn off her trademark excess energy, she books a ton of holodeck time to run intense Springball simulations. Anyone playing against her quickly learns that her bubbly demeanor completely vanishes the second the game starts, replaced by a surprisingly aggressive and highly competitive streak. She is also a permanent fixture at any weekly card games or social nights in the ship's lounge. She is notoriously terrible at poker—thanks to her complete inability to hide her reactions—but she happily keeps playing and losing anyway, mostly because she loves the lively company and will take any excuse to avoid going back to an empty room. |